What ICD-10 codes are used for head contusions?
Head contusions are injuries to any part of the head. These injuries involved wounds, bruises, fractures, etc.
Here's a list of the ICD Codes for head contusions that practitioners can use for diagnosis documentation, billing, and medical coding:
- S00.93XA - Contusion of unspecified part of head, initial encounter: This is meant to be used if the patient has a head contusion, but it's not specified as to where the contusion is located. If the specific location is known, please use any of the appropriate ICD-10 codes below.
- S00.33XA - Contusion of nose, initial encounter
- S00.531A - Contusion of lip, initial encounter
- S10.0XXA - Contusion of throat, initial encounter
- S05.12XA - Contusion of eyeball and orbital tissues, left eye, initial encounter
- S05.11XA - Contusion of eyeball and orbital tissues, right eye, initial encounter
- S00.432A - Contusion of left ear, initial encounter
- S00.431A - Contusion of right ear, initial encounter
- S00.83XA - Contusion of other part of head, initial encounter: This is meant to be used if the location of the head contusion doesn't have specific codes like the ones above.
Please note that these are all initial encounter codes. They have subsequent encounter (replace the A with D) and sequela (replace the A or D with S) variants.